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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>:
> Howdy all!
> 
> We are a week and 1/2 away from the deadline for our 1.0 iso release and
> I wanted to note a few things that I would like to coordinate with you
> all:
> 
> 1) Sorcery v1.8 will be released (stable version of sorcery) sometime
> this friday, awaiting some testing on the xinetd responses.

Yeah! ;)

> 2) Need to make a press release that hits more than our usual audience,
> please mail me the possible addresses or make it known that you can get
> an announcement into a certain site/list. If you can get it there, just
> grab a cut and past from the sm-announce list when it hits and spread
> whereever you deem necessary.

The usual, osnews, slashdot, newsforge, sourceforge, distrowatch, freshmeat,
etc. I have no "internal" sources to help on any news organization. :(
 
> 3) I am assuming that the iso, grimoire and sorcery are all on track as
> I have head nothing to the contrary. If this is not so, please let me
> know?

Grimoire is fairly stable, with a few serious bugs, but I've been able to
install from the 0.9.1 ISO and get a system up to X+KDE|GNOME, so the major
components are good.
 
> 4) Suggestions for the release announcement text are welcome, or should
> I just repeat the same style as previously.  I was thinking of posting
> something of a short story about "Wandering down into the Source Mage
> valley you encouter a sign on a tree stating 'Source Mage GNU/Linux v1.0
> released today' and wonder what magical place this is....' and so on...
> thoughts?

Interesting stories are (almost) always better than "blah blah blah 1.0 
released
blah blah get it here blah blah".
 
> Hope you are all ready for the coming weeks and don't forget that we
> have a post 1.0 admin meeting scheduled for 7 March.

What time?

> Good luck all!

-sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/  #196285  |  http://www.shock.wsu.edu/

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